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This document summarises responses from a process designed to test the suitability of the
draft tikanga framework for the taxation system. The central themes in the responses were:
• That Treasury is to be commended for ...

This resource has been prepared by Te Puni Kōkiri to provide insight and share initial findings
from Te Puni Kōkiri commissioned research and evaluation of Māori social enterprise in
Aotearoa.
These insights are intended ...

This dissertation examines the key attempts at reaching compromise between the secessionists of the Southern States and the Republican administration of
Abraham Lincoln during the Secession Crisis of 1860-61. The question ...

Sir Sydney Smith was a well‐respected forensic pathologist in Britain during the twentieth century. While there is some secondary literature on Smith, it does not examine him and his various
interesting cases in detail. ...

Music and painting are, materially speaking, very different arts. In the former a temporally presented mode of expression addresses itself to the ear, in the latter a spatially presented mode addresses itself to the eye, ...

This research essay examines the mainstream media representation of the 1975 Māori Land March in order to explore a time of change in New Zealand’s race relations. The 1970s is considered the beginning of New Zealand’s ...

The American Civil Rights Movement redresses one of the great injustices in American history: the racial inequality faced by African‐Americans. However, the
dominant understanding of the challenge to racial injustice is ...

This study examines the inability of historians to reach any consensus regarding Britain during the fifth and sixth century ‘Dark Ages’. The first chapter examines how a
preoccupation with myths of origin has affected ...

Accusations of Jewish ritual murder have persisted into the modern era, but the medieval origins of the accusation reflect the society from which it emerged. Between 1066 and 1290 the perception and position of the Jewish ...

The period of British colonialism and the expansion of British influence in India occurred over a number of years. This research paper focuses primarily on the period from 1798 to 1805, with particular reference to the ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a well known individual because of his behaviour during Nazi Germany (1933-1945), but what are the reasons for his fame? Was he really that unique? this
paper aims to determine who has celebrated ...

This dissertation will look at the development of the Church in the British Isles from the fifth to seventh Centuries, through the case study of Monasticism.
Monasticism is a good case study as not only are there primary ...

Pregnancy and childbirth is a biologically and socially constructed event which shaped the lives of the majority of English women between 1400 and 1700. While older historical
accounts have focused on the progress made ...

The history and topography of Ireland, written by Gerald of Wales, offers a vivid insight into the significance and purpose of literature in twelfth-century Norman England. This dissertation seeks to place Gerald’s works ...

The 1940s were a period of crisis for many people around the world. The Second World War created many fears and doubts that resulted in the questioning of the current way of life and provoking thought about the future of ...

This paper focuses on a form of crowdsourcing that outsources ‘micro-tasks’ to virtual volunteers, within the context of a clearly defined Digital Humanities project contributing to preservation and research. The success ...